Improved whooping-cough plaster



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Letters Patent No, 97,089, dated Noomnber 23, 1869.

IMPROVED WHOOPING-COUGH 'ZPLAS'I'ER.

The shedule Ieierred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the smfie.

.three simple ingredients, in proportionate quantities,

which, when compounded and diluted, so as to form a. paste, and spread on kid-skin or water-proof cloth, and applied to the chest or neck of the patient, act as a. stimulant, expectorant, and anti-spasmodic remedy for whooping-cough,'as well as for cough produced by cold and consumption, as can be proved from many successful experiments.

For a. basis for my new medical compound, I take gum-galbanum, which constitutes the juice of an evergreen plant, indigenous to Syria, the East Indies, and

Of this basis, I take First, twelve parts of gum-galban-um; Second, one part of beeswax; "and, Third. one-eighth pait of lemon-juice.

These ingredients I mix together, in an earthen or other vessel, which I close at the. mouth with a stopper, and place in a Warm room, for three days, stirring; up the same at intervals. :On the fourth day, my compound is ready for use, when, by spreading a portion of said medical composition on kid-skin or water-proof clot-h, as a plaster, and applying the same to the chestor neck of the patient, immediate rcliefand final cure of whooping-cough will be the result of the application of my whooping-cough plaster to the patient.

Having described my invention,

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I A medical compound, composed of the ingredients herein specified, and in about the proportions named.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my signature, this 17th day of September, A. D. 1869.

FREDERICK HOWER.

Witnesses ARTHUR NEILL, ARTHUR B. WILLIAMS. 

